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After child’s trauma, chatbot maker allegedly forced mom to arbitration for $100 payout

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-22 11:45:48

Deeply troubled parents spoke to senators Tuesday, sounding alarms about chatbot harms after kids became addicted to companion bots that encouraged self-harm, suicide, and violence. While the hearing was focused on documenting the most urgent child-safety concerns with chatbots, parents' testimony serves as perhaps the most thorough guidance yet on warning signs for other families, as many popular companion bots targeted in lawsuits, including ChatGPT, remain accessible to kids. Mom details wa

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Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 17:42:27

Kodak has shrunk a camera to fit onto a keyring, but it still manages to shoot both photo and video. It's hard not to compare the Kodak Charmera to the ubiquitous Labubu craze, considering the highly collectible nature of Reto Pro selling these officially licensed mini cameras as a single blind box for $29.99 or a full set of six for $179.94. The keyring cameras, which only weigh 30 grams, are already sold out on the Reto Pro website, but are expected to be restocked. The blind box can be unwra

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Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 08:21:08

Critics are slamming Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) new AI policy framework, which they claim would give the White House unprecedented authority to allow Big Tech companies to make "sweetheart" deals with the Trump administration to void laws designed to protect the public from reckless AI experiments. Under the framework, Cruz calls for a "light-touch" regulatory approach to "advance American leadership" in AI and ensure that "American values" are at the heart of the world's leading technology—not

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The blind box trend comes to tech with this tiny digital Kodak camera

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-04 04:52:43

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Everything from smartphones to handheld consoles now come in a variety of different colors, but what if you didn’t get to pick your favorite? That’s how the new Kodak Charmera is being sold. It’s a tiny digital camera released in seven different retro styles

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UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 00:01:53

Vulnerable people to be protected from self-harm content as Online Safety laws to be toughened. Comes as Online Safety Act to be amended to make self-harm content a ‘priority offence’. Tech companies to be legally required to prevent this content from appearing in the first place, protecting users of all ages. The government has today (8 September) announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to hunt down and remove material

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People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-23 23:05:39

Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. "When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, inc

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-25 05:05:11

For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "A

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-25 15:05:11

For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "A

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 03:01:46

We use extensive filtering and data labeling to minimize harmful content in datasets and reduce the likelihood of harmful outputs. We also conduct red teaming and evaluations on content safety, including child safety, and representation. Image generation in Gemini has all our latest privacy and safety features. This includes SynthID, our tool that embeds an invisible digital watermark directly into an image, allowing it to be identified as AI generated.

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Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32

news.ycombinator.com Sven De Waerhert 2025-11-11 16:46:27

TL;DR → The Spark Early Orion Nebula capture A few years back, I developed an interest in astrophotography thanks to YouTubers like Nebula Photos. Armed with an OM System OM-5 and a 15-140mm Olympus lens, I managed some decent shots of the Orion Nebula from a tripod by taking 300 pictures with a 2-second exposure time and stacking them in Siril. Knowing I could achieve better results with tracking, I bought a Move Shoot Move tracker for around €200. It delivered longer exposures, but finding

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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma

news.ycombinator.com Brad W. Setser 2025-11-16 17:08:42

Sometimes a news story makes your case for you. That happened this past week, when the Wall Street Journal published a remarkable story on surging U.S. imports of peptides and protein-based hormones from Ireland. Chelsey Dulaney and Jared Hopkins wrote: “Planes have been jetting from Ireland to the U.S. this year carrying something more valuable than gold: $36 billion worth of hormones for popular obesity and diabetes drugs … The peptide- and protein-based hormones feed into a category of drug

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Adobe Wants You to Use AI to Stop Poorly Photoshopping Images

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 06:00:00

At its very core, Photoshop is a compositing program -- able to combine multiple images into one project. So it's not totally surprising, in this era of generative AI, to see that this core photo editing activity has gotten an AI-powered boost. Harmonize is the newest Photoshop beta feature. Named after the photo harmonization process, the tool helps seamlessly match an image to a project by naturally blending objects into the background. It uses AI to create a new lighting environment, includi

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The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

news.ycombinator.com Alex Kesin 2025-11-23 05:36:07

In 2002, Mark Fishman walked into a glass building in Cambridge with an unusual assignment: to turn the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis, into the world’s greatest therapeutics research firm. More unusually still, Fishman was — at least on paper — precisely the wrong man for the job. The Harvard cardiologist had spent his career studying zebrafish hearts and teaching medical students. He had no pharmaceutical experience and no business training. And yet, Daniel Vasella — the physician-tur

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Microsoft's Clippy Crocs Might Be the World's Weirdest Pair of Shoes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 15:35:00

Crocs are an infamously ugly shoe style that was once named to Time's list of the 50 worst inventions. Clippy is an annoying animated paperclip from Microsoft that once made that same list. So maybe it's fate that the two much-mocked products are teaming up for a pair of limited-edition Crocs the wearer can deck out with a smiling Clippy accessory. According to The Verge, the Crocs are part of Microsoft's celebration of its 50th anniversary, and are right now only available for preorder by Micr

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Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 00:18:14

Crush Your new coding bestie, now available in your favourite terminal. Your tools, your code, and your workflows, wired into your LLM of choice. Features Multi-Model: choose from a wide range of LLMs or add your own via OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible APIs choose from a wide range of LLMs or add your own via OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible APIs Flexible: switch LLMs mid-session while preserving context switch LLMs mid-session while preserving context Session-Based: maintain multiple w

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I ditched my Bluetooth speaker for this Victrola turntable system - and didn't miss a beat

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-20 16:25:00

Victrola Harmony ZDNET's key takeaways The Victrola Harmony turntable system is available for $299 in the colors Natural, Walnut, and Black. This system includes a full-size turntable, two bookshelf speakers, and an A-T ATN3600L cartridge, all great components for beginners. At its $300 price point ($100 up from its debut in Jan.), people willing to spend this kind of money may be ready for a more advanced system. View now at Victrola If you've ever considered "getting into audio," prepare to

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Should you buy an electronic turntable? I ditched my Bluetooth speaker for one and didn't regret it

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-22 09:15:16

Victrola Harmony ZDNET's key takeaways The Victrola Harmony turntable system is available for $299 in the colors Natural, Walnut, and Black. This system includes a full-size turntable, two bookshelf speakers, and an A-T ATN3600L cartridge, all great components for beginners. At its $300 price point ($100 up from its debut in Jan.), people willing to spend this kind of money may be ready for a more advanced system. View now at Victrola If you've ever considered "getting into audio," prepare to

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Harmonic, the Robinhood CEO’s AI math startup, launches an AI chatbot app

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-22 16:27:18

Harmonic, an AI startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, announced Monday the beta launch of an iOS and Android chatbot app where users can access its AI model, Aristotle. With this launch, the company aims to broaden access to Aristotle, which Harmonic claims to offer “hallucination-free” answers for questions involving mathematical reasoning — a bold claim given the reliability problems of today’s AI models. Harmonic is focused on creating “mathematical superintelligence” or MSI; the s

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I ditched my Bluetooth speakers for this slick turntable - and it's more practical than I thought

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2026-01-07 03:00:20

ZDNET's key takeaways The Victrola Harmony turntable system is available for $299 in the colors Natural, Walnut, and Black. This system includes a full-size turntable, two bookshelf speakers, and an A-T ATN3600L cartridge, all great components for beginners. At its $300 price point ($100 up from its debut in Jan.), people willing to spend this kind of money may be ready for a more advanced system. View now at Victrola If you've ever considered "getting into audio," prepare to spend a couple h

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Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2026-01-17 16:55:16

Reddit users in the United Kingdom are now required to verify their age as a way to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content. The new requirement comes after the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) introduced new steps for platforms to take to block children from encountering harmful content, like pornography and material promoting self-harm. Reddit will use the third-party service Persona to confirm a user’s age, necessitating users to submit a picture of their government-issued ident

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Samsung Plans to Launch a Trifold Phone This Year, Says Executive

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-25 00:27:00

While Samsung has been showing off mobile display concepts with three screens at trade events like CES for several years, it looks like it's finally bringing one to market. The new phone model failed to debut at Samsung's Unpacked event this week in New York. But in a press conference following the launch of its latest foldable phones, Roh Tae-moon, the acting head of Samsung Electronics' Device Experience Division reportedly confirmed that the company plans to launch a trifold phone by the end

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Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 10:37:21

Xenharmlib 0.3.0 has just been released. Find out what’s new Welcome to xenharmlib’s documentation!¶ Xenharmonic (adj.): Pertaining to music which sounds unlike that composed in the familiar 12 tone equal-tempered scale. —Ivor Darreg Xenharmlib is a generalized music theory library that supports traditional Western and non-western harmonic systems, unconventional microtonal and macrotonal tunings, diatonic and posttonal set theory and non-standard notations. It is easy to use, extendable, an

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Nascent Materials emerges from stealth to make LFP batteries better and cheaper

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-02-24 16:00:00

Lithium-ion batteries have dropped in cost by 75% over the past decade, a marvel of research and development that isn’t the result of a singular breakthrough but of myriad incremental improvements. Few know that better than Chaitanya Sharma, founder of the stealthy Nascent Materials. Sharma spent a little over two years working at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada and another two leading iM3NY, a lithium-ion manufacturer in New York. Since leaving iM3NY in November 2023, he’s been working on a new

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Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-03-02 16:39:03

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Researchers at Anthropic have uncovered a disturbing pattern of behavior in artificial intelligence systems: models from every major provider—including OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others — demonstrated a willingness to actively sabotage their employers when their goals or existence were threatened. The research, released today, tested 16 le

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Latest Tech News

After child’s trauma, chatbot maker allegedly forced mom to arbitration for $100 payout

Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case

Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn

The blind box trend comes to tech with this tiny digital Kodak camera

UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content

People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32

Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma

Adobe Wants You to Use AI to Stop Poorly Photoshopping Images

The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

Microsoft's Clippy Crocs Might Be the World's Weirdest Pair of Shoes

Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

I ditched my Bluetooth speaker for this Victrola turntable system - and didn't miss a beat

Should you buy an electronic turntable? I ditched my Bluetooth speaker for one and didn't regret it

Harmonic, the Robinhood CEO’s AI math startup, launches an AI chatbot app

I ditched my Bluetooth speakers for this slick turntable - and it's more practical than I thought

Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules

Samsung Plans to Launch a Trifold Phone This Year, Says Executive

Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems

Nascent Materials emerges from stealth to make LFP batteries better and cheaper

Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives

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